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Tweet[IWS] World Bank/IMF: HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES (HIPC) INITIATIVE AND MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF INITIATIVE (MDRI)—STATISTICAL UPDATE [19 December 2013]
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World Bank/IMF
HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES (HIPC) INITIATIVE AND MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF INITIATIVE (MDRI)—STATISTICAL UPDATE [19 December 2013]
http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Poverty%20documents/HIPC_Fall2013_EN_web.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]
Press Release 19 December 2013
Debt Relief for 39 Countries on Track to Reach US$114 billion
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/12/16/debt-relief-39-countries-track-reach-114-billion
Story Highlights
Two debt-relief initiatives organized by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund – the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) – are continuing to help poor countries fight poverty.
The programs have relieved 36 participating countries of $96 billion in debt since 1996, freeing up their governments to spend money on poverty reduction.
Thirty-one of the beneficiary countries are in Africa.
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